News

• Hearts & Minds – Friday the 13th mini-mission

• Dan Said Stuff: In defense of of Friday the 13th mini-mission by dstahl

• Ferengi Lockboxes Released – New D’Kora marauder class ship included.

• The Reman shield tooltip now indicates that it’s a part of a set – upcoming Vault event perhaps?

• Impending STF Update from Gozer (possible for April 20th)

• Drop rate for “Tech” loot increased

• New respawn timer that increases the more you die

• KA Ground  – upper base Borg must be completely killed before entering lower base

• KA Ground – optional timer will start when exiting the first room rather than upon entering the lower base. Should make it as challenging as the Infected ground optional.

• Gozer coming on next week to explain it all and talk STF loot tables too

• Big changes for the Foundry Files in the very near future

• Becoming it’s own podcast

• Will still visit STOked from time to time

• New budget for all the wigs Murphy wants (frickin’ Diva)

• Irish stepping down from Technical reviewing to focus on production but will visit

• “Spirits Of Ramok Nor” author – Alimac30 replacing Irish. Great coup for the team!

Tactical View – Friday 13th Mission ”Hearts & Minds”

• short mission – 5 to 10 minutes
• Interesting gas leak environmental hazard mechanic
• Another use for our EV suits
• Unique Doff and Lirpa rewards

Duty Officer Guide Part 2

• Best Practices & Pro Tips For Running Duty Officer Missions

• Trade in missions where you swap 5 lower quality doffs for 1 doff of the next quality level up have a small dilithium cost, check this before you complete the transaction.

• Trade in NPCs offer you the chance to receive a doff of a specific species

• Department Head / Shipboard assignments reflect each other currently which negates the need to zone into your ship to check every sector.

• Unlocking repeatable assignments is crucial to efficiently gaining CXP for the tier 3 and tier 4 ranks where the targets are 50K adn 100K respectively.

• If you pick up a rare assignment on your ship, consider posting that in the Doffjobs channel and inviting others to your bridge so that they can get that assignment too.

• Check the list of “special” Duty Officers for rare and ultra rare doffs that you may want.

• Dilithium Attainment Tips

• In the center room of ESD there is an NPC who gives Doff missions. One of these is to turn in 3 contraband to gain 2, 000 dilithium ore on a 2 hr timer per character.

• The KDF equivalent of this mission is located in The Great Hall in First City.

• Recently the 24 hour cooldown on this mission  “disappeared”. It is unknown if that was intentional or simply a bug.

• The KDF can pick up lots of Contraband from marauding assignments. Mailing those items to the FED characters on your account can allow you to run multiple version of this mission at the same time thus maximising your dilithium gains.

• The 800 day veteran reward grants access to a new assignment at the academies which allows the veterans to refine an additional 1,000 Dilithium Ore above their 8,000 per day dilithium ore refinement cap.

• Efficient Travel Tips

• Sector Space travel is your constant enemy for Hardcore Doffing. Not only do your Bridge Officers constantly ask you to warp into wrong Sectors, lots of loading screens all the time… but if you Doff a lot, you do not want to spend half that time staring at your ship crawling slowly through sector space at Warp 10.

• The Borg Engine for 5 EDC from the STF Vendor is the cheapest and STILL the fastest engine in STO.

• The Omega Force Engine gives players the ability to use Slipstream twice as often. This is not listed on the tooltip but is easily verified in game.

• Set your Drive Coil skill to at least 6, if not 9 for a solid base warp speed boost.

• Diplomatic Immunity and Raiding Party buffs from other Players will also give you Sector Space speed gains. Players have been reported to reach speeds of Warp 40 in slipstream with all these Buffs stacked!

• There is also a Personal Assignment that will buff your Drive Coil skill for one hour, make sure you have that one ready when you participate in the “Tour The Galaxy” Event (if you fly around Sector Space all the time you can just as reel in the free energy credits from that event too).

• Additional Transwarps are always nice to have, but it has a cooldown timer so the Excelsior is not an ideal solution.

• Astrometric scientist doffs on active space duty can reduce the cooldown of your transwarp to as little as 5 minutes.

• The Odyssey cruisers also give you double the time in Slipstream mode.

• That all cuts down on travel time, the more characters you play, the more important it will get to cut down on that.

• You also will need to know where you want to go. Suricata’s Star Chart may help you with that, but the ingame map is fine too, just make sure to know your sector blocks and the sector borders within them.

• Assignment Chains & Other Goodies

• These are basically a series of Doff assignments that are linked together where you must complete one mission before unlocking the next*. When you reach the end of a chain there is often a special reward such as a rare or very rare duty officer, Mark XII Consoles, unique Food Items, Player Titles and all sorts of Items.

• Mission completion is all that matters.  Success or failure is not considered.

• The most important chain at the moment probably is the Colonial chain. There is one Colonial chain for every exploration cluster, it’s the hardest chain to complete but it also has the best rewards.

• For every exploration cluster that you complete you will get one unique Rare Duty Officer and unlock a repeatable “support” assignment.

• The unlocked support assignment will give you a Very Rare Duty Officer with the same traits as the Rare Duty Officer, but only on critical success so you might need to repeat it a few times to get lucky.

• Once you complete the whole Colonial chain you will have gained 14 Rare and 14 Very Rare Duty Officers which is a great base roster to build upon.

• The repeatable Support Mission will reward “Refugees”, which on their own seem rather worthless, but they can be turned in at “Asylum” Missions. Depending on the Refugee traits, you have a good chance to get a random high level DOff (not including the new Gamma Quadrant Races!).

• You will need a lot of Colonists for these chains. 168 (per Character) to be precise, start collecting them whenever you can. If you got Energy Credits it’s a good idea to buy them on the Exchange as you need them.

• Other than that there are “Resettle Colonists” assignments which will give you 5 Colonists every time, but it can only be started every 28 hours.

• Colonists are stored separately from your DOff Roster in an extra Tab. That Tab can only hold 20 Colonists, so when you run out of space, take 5 of them and put them in a mail addressed to yourself.

• You will need a certain amount of various the commodities. There is a Spreadsheet with all the Commodities you will need and the prices in the different places, cheapest are the Freighters that fly around Sector Space. If you follow the sheet you can save 238,700 Energy Credits (PER CHARACTER !).

• If you place the purchased commodities in your Bank you will not have to open your replicator and scroll past all the food for every single assignment, which can get annoying real fast!

• If you follow the “2 of each Profession” method on your DOff Roster you will run into problems on certain steps of the chain that require Technicians and Quartermasters, so it will be better keep more of those around until you are done with your Colonial Chains.

• It is also noteworthy that Klingons can not enter Delta Volanis until they reach Marauding Rank 3 and Federation Players can not enter any of the Klingon Sectors until Diplomacy Rank 3. You can ask in the DOFFJOBS chat channel if someone can give you Diplomatic Immunity or Raiding Party.

• The Consular Authority chain was released together with the Gamma Quadrant C-Store Packs. It is the “free in-game way” to get your hands on the new Duty Officers species like Bajorans, Cardassians, Wadi, Dosi, Karemma and so on. It is the only way to get Duty Officers with the new “resolve” Trait that is required for some assignments and gives you better chances for many of the new assignments that were added with the latest Duty Officer expansion. It does NOT include Jem’Hadar, Vorta, Tosk or Hunters, these seem to be only available through the C-Store Packs.

• Biochemical Investigations: comes in 6 variants which each providing a different Gamma Quadrant commodity and completion rewards are special ground consumables. The assignment can be picked up from the DS9 zones.

• Biogenic Weaponisation: a 2 part chain that unlocks a repeatable 45m assignment that grants elevated CXP rewards over other similar short duration assignments  i.e. 98 CXP. The initial  assignement can be picked up from Klingon Academy making it KDF only.

• Children’s Toys: This 4 part assignment chain grants green, blue or purple MK XII random consoles upon overall completion. The first part gives you a “strange alien artifact” and this assignment  can be obtained in most of the Cardassian sectors. The remaining parts of the chain are then unlocked at the Science Officer inside your ship.

• Colonisation: a 7 part chain which unlocks repeatable refugee and prisoner assignments in the exploration clusters. Critical success in those unlocked assignment can reward with a rare purple Doff. Each cluster offers a different purple Doff for a critical success. The initial assignment must be picked up in any of the exploration clusters.

• Culinary Credentials: a 5 part chain which unlocks multiple repeatable assignments for elevated CXP rewards and overall completion unlocks the “Chef” and “Master Chef” titles. The initial assignment is picked up from within your ship.

• Colonial Team: comes in 4 variants with 3 assignments in each aligned to the 4 Gamma Quadrant species (Karemma / Paradan / Dosi / Wadi). Completion unlocks high CXP assignments in the Zenas Expanse. The initial assignment can be picked up in the Cardassian sectors.

• Consular Authority: a 4 part chain with 7 variants (Bajor / Karemma / Parada / Cardassia / Dosi / Ferasa / Wadi). Completion opens up a Doff exchange assignment where you can swap existing Doffs for one from the species variant you have completed. The initial assignment can be picked up in the Cardassian sectors.

• Extreme Bartending: a 5 part chain where your bartender gets to show off some skills to unlock multiple repeatable assignments. The 4th part grants the “Bartender” title and the 5th grants the “Master Bartender” title. The initial assignment can be picked up aboard your ship.

• Facility 4028 Fugitives: a 5 part chain which yields gamma quadrant commodities and rare gamma quadrant duty officers. The initial assignment can be picked up in the Regulus sector and sometimes in adjacent sectors.

• Gaming Proficiency: a 4 part chain that unlocks the “Strategema Master” title upon completion. The initial mission can be picked up aboard your ship.

• Ghosts Of The Jem’Hadar: a 10 part chain that unlocks many repeatable assignments and then provides a purple named Doff upon chain completion. The initial assignment can be picked up in the Cardassian sectors.

• Project Chrysalis: a 6 part chain that unlocks a few repeatable missions and a purple doff upon completion. The initial assignment can be picked up from the Cardassian sectors.

• “Instigate Defection” assignments can be used to pick up doffs from the opposite faction. The assignment is picked up from…

• “Extricate Intelligence Asset” can be used to pick up doffs from the opposite faction. For FEDs the assignments can be picked up in Klingon bordering sectors and vice versa for the KDF.

• “Reclaim Assimilated Borg Drones” yields a green or blue doff and the assignment can be picked up in either the Sirius or Regulus sectors.

• “Investigate Temporal Anomaly” yields a purple bartender *(Guinan Doff) upon completion is is once per character only. The assignment can be picked up in exploration clusters, Beta Ursae, Eta Eridani and Omega Leonis so far. There may be other sectors too.

• Combat Benefits With The Active Roster

• Active Space Roster – some doffs provide boosts to your space abilities, cooldown reductions or “proc” effects when those doffs are put on active assignment.

• Active Ground Roster – some doffs provide boosts to your ground abilities, cooldown reductions or “proc” effects when those doffs are put on active assignment.

• Tactical

• Conn Officer (Evasive Maneuvers) – cooldown reduction

• Conn Officer (Tactical Team) – cooldown reduction & Starship Attack Patterns buff

• Energy Weapons Officer – reduce cooldown on subsystem targetting abilities

• Projectile Weapons Officer – cooldown reduction

• Shield Distribution Officer – chance to improve shield regen & shield regen rate

• Security

• Armory Officer – 20% chance to beam in an additional turret of increasing quality [ground]

• Assault Squad Officer – 33% chance to reduce grenade cooldown timers [ground]

• Security Officer – 20% chance up to 100% chance (purple) to beam in additional security escorts of increasing quality when Security Team is used [ground]

• Engineering

• Damage Control Engineer – 20% chance for cooldown reduction with “emergency power to” abilities

• Diagnostic Engineer – 10% chance to increase ranged damage when using the Equipment diagnostics ability [ground]

• Fabrication Engineer – 20% chance up to 100% chance (purple) to beam in additional support drones of increasing quality when Summon Support Drone is used [ground]

• Maintenance Engineer – cooldown reduction for Engineering Team and a buff to hull repair

• Matter/Antimatter Specialist – chance to immobilise enemy ships when Eject Warp Plasma is used

• Systems Engineer – chance to shutdown additional subsystem when using Viral Matrix

• Technician – 10% chance to reduce cooldowns on all bridge officer abilities when “Aux to Emergency Battery” is used

• Warp Core Engineer –  20% chance to buff all 4 power levels when any “Emergency Power to” ability is used

• Operations

• Deflector Officer – chance to reduce cooldown on all deflector abilities after they are used e.g. Scramble Sensors / Viral Matrix / Jam Sensors / Gravity Well / Tyken’s Rift / Science Team / Tachyon Beam

• Explosives Expert – chance to create an additional mortar when Quantum Mortar is used  [ground]

• Flight Deck Officer – chance to reduce the cooldown timers on all hangar bays and boarding party abilities

• Hazard Systems Officer – buffs damage resistance when Ramming Speed or Brace For Impact are used

• Quartermaster – cooldown reduction to Combat Supply when used  [ground]

• Sensors Officer – severely debuff enemy damage output when Sensor Scan is used

• Tractor Beam Officer – applies a shield drain when Tractor Beam is used

• Transporter Officer – chance to remove hostile boarding parties when Transfer Shield Strength is used

• Science

• Astrometrics Scientist – cooldown reduction on all Transwarp abilities

• Biologist – none

• Botanist – none

• Development Lab Scientist – reduces cooldown timer and buffs Starship Shield Emitters

• Geologist – none

• Gravimetric Scientist – chance to create an additional Gravity Well when used

• Photonic Studies Scientist – reduce cooldown on Photonic Officer & Photonic Shockwave when used

• Research Lab Scientist – none

• Warp Theorist – debuffs the turn rate of targets when Tachyon Beam is used

• Medical

• Biochemist – add a damage resistance buff when Science Kit abilities are used [ground]

• Counselor – none

• Doctor – chance to increase maximum health points when Medical Tricorder or Vascular Regerator is used  [ground]

• Medic – chance to beam in a medic who will heal you and your team when a Hypo is used  [ground]

• Nurse –  chance to beam in a medic who will heal you and your team when a Hypo is used  [ground]

• Civilian

• Advisor – none

• Friday the 13th reward: Advisor – reduce psionic powers cooldown by 15% / reduce recharge time by 15% (typo?)

• Bartender – none

• Chef – none

• Colonist – none

• Diplomat – none

• Entertainer – none

• Prisoner – none

• Refugee – none

• Trader – none

• Miscellaneous:

• Facility 4028 Biochemist Reward Doff – when added to your active ground roster allows you to use your replicator to produce Ketracel White for your Jem’Hadar bridge officer.

• CXP Boosts – obtained from C-Store or lockboxes provide you with a way to double the CXP rewards from your missions up to a cap e.g. 1K or 10K

• Helna Duty Officer – taken from a popular foundry character created by Havraha of Podcast UGC fame. You can pick up this homage doff via the colonial chain in the Arucanis Arm.

• Helpful Resources:

• DoffJOBS Spreadsheet

• DoffJOBS Trekker

• DoffJOBS in game, global chat channel

• STOwiki – always needs new contributors

Artwork Credit

Ambassador Class U.S.S Yamaguchi

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https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/18661/reporting-for-duty-stoked-118/ Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:49:52 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=18661 We chat with Thomas the Cryptic Cat Marrone, then it’s part one of our comprehensive guide to the Duty Officer System. We’ll start you with the basics, and ramp it up to advanced!

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We chat with Thomas “the Cryptic Cat” Marrone, then it’s part one of our comprehensive guide to the Duty Officer System. We’ll start you with the basics, and ramp it up to advanced!

Plus our review of the First Contact Day event and the new KDF mission Alpha!

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Show Notes:

Intro

• Happy First Contact day to all STO players
• Dan Stahl & Brandon hosted a Q&A in the RedAlert chat channel on First Contact Day
• Utopia Planetia social zone introduced
• Replica of the Phoenix Warp 1 craft made available as a space pet
• New KDF mission released which is an homage to “Predator” in many ways

News

• First Contact Day Q&A – Highlights:]
• Gates Of Stovokor Interview with Daniel Stahl
• They (KDF players) see the KDF as the Horde in WoW and wonder why it is doesn’t have its own zones with an entirely separate content track unto itself. The game was just not made to be that at launch. The only way we’ll ever get there is if we spin up an entirely separate team of content designers to go back and make a few years’ worth of content and release it as an expansion.
• CBS believe that only around 20% of Star Trek fans would be interested in playing a Klingon character and Daniel Stahl has previously stated that 18% of STO players actively gaming with the KDF faction. That was believed to be too low a number to warrant a lot of development time on the faction due to a low return on investment. It is unlikely that the Romulans / Cardassians have a higher percentage of fandom and as such, does that mean that we will only get to see a third faction in STO if they add a separate development team with the goal of producing a paid expansion for a F2P title. Lord of the Rings Online is likely a good example of this sort of effort as they recently released a paid expansion called War In The North.
• Link to the study Perpetual Entertainment Study
• Would you be willing to pay for an expansion which would add KDF / Romulan / Cardassian faction content?

Interview with Thomas “The Cryptic Cat” Marrone

• What does the Cryptic Cat do?
• The original minigame concept graphics he created
• The “patches” he has introduced to the game
• Multiple areas of the UI that he has worked on
• Trek design inspiration

Support the show: Grab the book that inspired Thomas!

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Tactical View – First Contact Anniversary Mission

• “First Contact Day” mission available from mission contact list
• Transwarp directly from the active mission list or zone into Utopia Planetia from SOL
• Interact with the Enterprise F crew while exploring a new social zone
• Pick up a space pet replica of the Zefram Cochrane warp 1 ship – The Phoenix

Tactical View – “Alpha” KDF Mission

• Chancellor J’mpok offers the mission from your contact list
• Investigate a system which contains a MASSIVE gas giant
• Explore the jungle looking for survivors while being hunted yourself

Duty Officer Guide Part 1

• What is a Doff? Junior officers and crew on your starship.

• When do we get Doffs? FED at lvl 8 and KDF at lvl 23

• Doffs are essentially “trading cards” that you constantly swap for better ones

• Doff Characteristics: Faction / Species / Quality / Rank / Department / Specialisation

• Doff Traits: Each duty officer can have between 1 and 5 traits which each possibly affecting the outcome of any mission that Doff is assigned to e.g. Unruly send on a diplomacy mission

• How many Doffs can you have? 100 default, 400 max using c-store purchases

• 25 Duty Officer slots for 180 C-Store points (per character)

• 100 Duty Officer slots for 580 C-Store points (per character)

• Duty Officer assignments give item rewards and commendation XP

• Commendation XP (CXP) has categories: Diplomacy (FED) / Marauding (KDF) / Science / Engineering / Military / Exploration / Espionage / Medical / Colonial / Trade / Development / Recruitment

• Commendation XP allows you to achieve Commendation Ranks

• Everyone starts off as Rank 0 in each CXP category

• Rank 1 – 2.5K CXP

• Rank 2 – 15K CXP

• Rank 3 – 50K CXP

• Rank 4 – 100K CXP

• Rank 5 – not currently implemented but CXP can be gained up to 150K CXP currently.

• Ranking up gives a character title, access to more missions in that specific category, a token to purchase a new duty officer for that rank (increases in quality as rank increases) and in special cases a new ability. Diplomacy / Marauding rank 4 allows each faction to enter the home sector of the other which provides access to Duty Officer missions in those sectors. Transwarps can also be gained from

• How can you get additional Duty Officers? character ranks / recruitment missions / CXP ranking up / trade in missions / dilithium purchases / Doff assignment rewards / STF token vendor / c-store / EC exchange / FE – Facility 4028 /

• Where can you find Doff Assignments? Sector tab / personal tab / social zones / inside your ship

• Basics of the Duty Officer Assignment user interface

• The button to activate the Doff interface is located under the mini-map

• Overview tab
  + Assignments Summary gives you details on how many mission you are currently running
  + Duty Officer Summary show how many Doffs you have and where they are currently
  + Commendation Advancement is your master view of your CXP rank progress and rewards

• Assignments tab includes red icons to indicate why you currently cannot take certain missions. This allows you an opportunity to correct those issues and pick up the assignment e.g. you need a duty officer not currently in your roster, you need some commodities
  + Current Sector
  + Personal
  + In Progress
  + Completed
  + Assignment Log
  + Assignment Chains

• Duty Officers tab
  + Full details of every duty officer in your roster including bonuses for putting them on active assignment
  + Filter provided to allow you to focus on the specific Doffs you want to examine
  + Option provided to dismiss a Doff and be compensated in dilithium
  + Sections: Roster / Active Space / Active Ground / Sickbay / Brig / Passengers / Cargo Bay

• Request Duty Officers tab
  + Purchase additional roster slots from the c-store
  + Purchase Doff packs from the c-store
  + Open any cadres you have and have them added to your roster
  + See your most recently added Doffs and filter through them as needed

• Department Heads
  + Assign a first offcer and obtain missions for that Bridge Officer
  + Departments: Engineering / Operations / Science / Medical / Tactical / Security
  + These bridge officers will make suggestions on what Doffs to assign to missions which fall under their specialisations.
  + These suggestions are NOT always the best Doffs to assign and that will be covered in more detail during the advanced guide next week on STOked 119.

• Basics of running a Duty Officer Assignment
  • Choose an assignment from a category that interests you
  • Read the assignment description to get an idea of the “story” involved
  • Take note of the “Time To Completion”
  • Examine the “Rewards” for this assignment
  • Use the “Chance of success” percentages and graph to gauge the expected outcome of the assignment based on the Doffs you choose to assign to it. This updates as you change Doffs.
  • The “Requires” section tells you how many Doffs are needed and the specific traits and specialisations that are required. The more of the good traits you have in your assigned Doffs, the higher you chances of success and possibly critical success will be. Failed missions sometimes result in Doff injuries and disasters result in dead white quality Doffs. Blue / Green / Purple doffs only take injuries from such failures. The only exception where higher than white quality DOffs “die” are when you assign them to “Execute For Incompetence” missions.
  • Some Doffs have an innate % boost to rewards provided e.g. 5 (green) / 10 (blue) / 20 (purple)

Next Week:

• Assignment chains and the special rewards from them
• Pro tips from Brooklyn Knight / Z3R0B4NG / Lucas Purcell
• Entire Duty Officer guide for these segments published in the show notes
• DoffJOBS Spreadsheet usage
• DoffJOBS Tracker
• DoffJOBS in game, global chat channel
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Foundry Files:

Foundry Files will have it’s own release soon, stay tunned to STOked for further announcements!

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/18521/chat-with-heretic-stoked-117/ Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:56:32 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=18521 We chat with Geoff "Heretic" Tuffli, the creator of Star Trek Online’s Duty Officer System. He shares insights into how the system works, future ideas, and more

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We chat with Geoff “Heretic” Tuffli, the creator of Star Trek Online’s Duty Officer System. Heretic shares insights into how the system works, future ideas, and a few surprises. Plus we get some hints about Fleet Starbases!

Mav covers the tips you need to know if your STO account is ever hacked, and what steps you can take to get the best response from support. Plus we dig into the Field Generator Console controversy!

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Show Notes:

Intro:

Triollogy of DOFF episodes.

• STO relaunched in the EU – link
• STO Calendar Updated for April – link

• 1-7. Klingon Awareness Week (Community)
• 5. New Klingon Mission
• 5. First Contact Day
• 5-9. First Contact Event
• 13. Friday the 13th Event
• 18. Foundry Challenge #2 Voting (Forums)

• New Loot container graphics on Tribble – link

News:  

• Leaked Romulan Ship – D’eridex Defender. Sneak peek at new content?  link

• First Contact Day Celebration details – “Celebrate First Contact Day with the crew of the Enterprise-F at Utopia Planitia (2nd Pic) ! Pick up a replica of the Phoenix!”
• Field Generator & Vent Theta Radiation consoles nerfed heavily – link (Comm Feed Tease)
• IDIC Tribble – profession based buffs & a bonus to having a team containing at least one of each profession – link (Small Graphics Glitch Discovered)

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Community Feedback:

• Account Security – My Hacking/Restoration Experience
• Field Generator & Vent Theta Radiation consoles nerfed heavily?

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/18283/geting-dilithium-fast-stoked-116/ Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:18:34 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=18283 It’s our best tips and tricks to gathering Dilithium as efficiently as you can. Plus we’ll give you our review of the new Dilithium mining event!

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It’s our best tips and tricks to gathering Dilithium as efficiently as you can. Plus we’ll bust through some STO news from the week, and give you our review of the new Dilithium mining event!

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Show Notes:

News:

• A little more insight from DStahl

  EVERYONE else (the majority of the team) is working on stuff that you will not see until the next big update – Season 6. That is where you will see things like Fleet Advancement system, Starbases, new types of Fleet Only “fleet actions”, updated PVP, new Foundry features, and if we are lucky, maybe even some leaderboards. Oh and maybe some Tholians.

Ship Interior Functionality via the Doff System

– New NPCs on your Ship Interiors (and a few public maps) that offer two types of assignments: Fixed and Rotating
– Fixed NPC Assignments will include things like crafting hyposprays, regenerators and ship components.
– Rotating NPC Assignments will include a mix of existing Shipboard and Sector assignments, as well as newly-crafted unique assignments ONLY available on these NPCs.
– Many steps of different Assignment Chains have been moved to these NPCs, to ensure that players participating in the Doff system check their interior somewhat regularly.
– Rotating NPC Assignments will be different on different interiors. If you don’t like what your NPCs are offering, visit a friend’s interior instead.

Tactical View:

• Dilithium Mining
• Useful for lower level players without access to better dilithium missions e.g. STFs
• Excellent environment with details such as low gravity “walking”
• Beautiful D’Kora model hovering above the asteroid (JamJamz designed it)
• Lack of profession specific aspects
  • Engineering: Ensuring heat dissipation during mining
  • Science: Regulating power level to ensure optimum laser cutting power
  • Tactical: Targetting dilithium veins effectively
• Asteroid Mining Guide

Dilithium Gathering Tips:

• -Multiple methods – casual & hardcore / low level & capped
• -Dailies / Special Events / Doff Assignments / Dismissing Doffs
• -Return on time investment is the key factor – dilithium per minute?
• -Daily Lore Mission – 480 dilithium for FED & KDF (academy mission)
• -Daily Foundry – 3 missions for 1440 (console missions expedite this)
• -Daily Cluster Exploration – 1440 for 3 missions (fastest with 3 scans)
• -Dilithium Mining Event – unsure of cap but seems to be 1K for 10 mins of play
• -STFs – elites give 1100 for completion for 20 to 30 mins of play with loot possibilities
• -Fleet Actions – 1440 dilithium each
• -KDF Sorties – 960 for Sortie Alpha, 960 for Sortie Bravo both repeatable every 30 mins
• -KDF “Path Of The Warrior” – wrapper mission for Sorties giving 2400 daily
• –800 Day Vet Reward – unique doff assigment which increases daily refining cap
• -STOwiki – dilithium mission guide

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/16926/second-wave-stoked-110/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:12:52 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=16926 Al Rivera, STO's Lead Game Designer joins STOked this week to bust some rumors, chat new ships, console changes, featured episode tech, and much more!

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Al Rivera, STO’s Lead Game Designer joins STOked this week to bust some rumors, chat new ships, console changes, featured episode tech, and much more!

PLUS: Chris gives you his first take on the Second Wave, the first episode of the new “The 2800” featured series.

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Show Notes:

Second Wave | STOked 110

Al Rivera, STO’s Lead Game Designer joins STOked this week to bust some rumors, chat new ships, console changes, featured episode tech, and much more!

PLUS: Chris gives you his first take on the Second Wave, the first episode of the new “The 2800” featured series.

Topic for next week:

Dan Stahl returns as Executive Producer

The 2800:

• Feature Episodes | Star Trek Online Official Site

Links:

• Season 5 Dev Diary #19
• Season 5 Dev Diary #20
• Season 5 Dev Diary #21
• Season 5 Dev Diary #22
• Cardassian Lock Box FAQ

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/14703/remastered-khitomer-accord-stoked-106/ Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:45:03 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=14703 It’s our quick guide to Star Trek Online Khitomer Accord special task force. Plus, we welcome Season 5 aboard and sum up the major points of this game update!

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It’s our quick guide to Star Trek Online Khitomer Accord special task force.

Plus, we welcome Season 5 aboard and sum up the major points of this game update, and cover some of the big community changes in the past week.

And a special look ahead and next week’s special episode!

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News Round Table

• Season 5 Released
• New Community Manager
• Return of Daniel Stahl
• Foundry Issues – editor disabled / all missions republished
• Terilynn from Podcast UGC going to work as STO writer at Massively

Tweet Leaks

• Update to floating NPC icon styles
• Update to floating NPC icon styles. #2
• Denis (Enviro. Artist) got the new icons for the ESD signage in! Not sure when this will hit Tribble.

Tactical View:

Grab the video companion notes here.

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/13366/the-next-generation-stoked-101/ Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:21:28 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=13366 Big changes for Star Trek Online fans. We introduce the beginning of a new show format, chat about the Doff System, big economy changes.

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Big changes for Star Trek Online fans, and STOked is rolling out one of the latest! We introduce the beginning of a new show format, chat about the Doff System, big economy changes.

And of course, a few of the difficulties players are having with STO’s transition to free to play.

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Show Notes:

 

> Doff System

– Operant conditioning / skinner box …Farmville
– Bartle test…Doff system fits into the “Achiever” aspect of gamer psychology
– Bajoran Doffs removed until the DS9 Feature Series debuts
– Reduced XP for longer term missions
– Increased XP for shorter term missions encouraging more frequent “Doff sessions” for players

 

> Economy

1. Dilithium/Emblem exchange rate unchanged. F2P players get +30% more Dilithium for their time as previous subscribers. 336 converted, 480 earned.
2. 754 dilithium per converted emblem for a MK XI Beam Array (formerly 30 emblems)
3. Options taken away from the T-5 Excelsior after people paid money for this item.
4. VA token still taken from us despite being told that nothing would be taken from subscribers.
5. Increases Decreases Common Items Unchanged
6. 58.62% 9.20% 100.00% 32.18%
7. Salami Inferno says C-Store prices are final https://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?p=3808268
8. James T. Picard points out that Cryptic’s C-Store prices aren’t higher than LOTRO’s in-game store prices.

https://forums.startrekonline.com/sho…d.php?t=238302

• • MVAM 1200 c-store points 2000 c-store points
  • Using 336 exchange rate: 500 emblems would be 168K dilithium
  • Using 754 exchange rate: 500 emblems would be 377K dilithium
  • 2000 C-Store points = MVAM = 168K or 377K dilithium
  • 1 c-store point = 84 or 188.5 dilithium

> Crafting Changes
– all tiers craftable again
– dilithium inserted into the higher tier (even levels)
– Mk XI Beam Array has old schematic costs + 16K refined dilithium (2 days to convert)
– MK XI Beam Array at ESD (was 30 emblems) 22,620 dilithium = 754 exchange rate

– Mission Chain Problem: https://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4515/brokenmission.jpg

– The Foundry: component complete still broken & anti-exploit nerf stops XP & drops after the 30th NPC kill in a single mission.

– Female Animations have been adjusted:

Now, if you choose the 3 feminine stances (Feminine, Sexy, Cute), you will get the existing new female walks & runs in unarmed modes.

If you choose the other gender neutral stances (Standard, Brawler, Stern …) you will get the default standard walks/ & runs.

– Zeronious Rex promoted to Producer and Farktoid5000 promoted to QA Lead
https://twitter.com/CrypticEQAH

– So Stephen D’Angelo said, during his interview on STOked 100, that he was going to have Stephen Ricossa do the Engineering Reports.

But then StormShade says no more Engineering Reports.
https://forums.startrekonline.com/sho….php?p=3815496
Now Stormshade says no more Dev Blogs.
https://forums.startrekonline.com/sho….php?p=3835627

– 700 Day Veteran Reward will come due December 11th, just 2 days after STO F2P launch.

– JBJeremy’s New Cryptic account https://twitter.com/BorticusCryptic & he is BorticusCryptic

Skills Revamp is coming!
Early details in CaptianGeko’s forum post.

Foundry Files:

• Overall, this mission is perfect for someone who wants to play a diplomatic mission with no combat (and hey, its another way to get some DXP, and it stacks up with some of Cryptics diplomatic missions like the ones that came out in Season 2) With a good story, and good puzzles, its very good for someone who wants to play a mission without combat.

Download the FULL review

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/12601/new-voyages-stoked-100/ Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:11:19 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=12601 STOked went on-site at Cryptic Studios to bring you the latest information and feature announcements, straight from the mouths of the developers themselves!

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In celebration of our 100th episode, STOked went on-site at Cryptic Studios to bring you the latest information and feature announcements, straight from the mouths of the developers themselves!

In addition to interviews and walkthrus, STOked has a big announcement of its own to make that you cannot afford to miss!

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Show Notes:

 

Tribble Patch:
– Doff System (lvl 12)
– Mission Journal UI upgrade (including Replay button!)
– “New” Fed tutorial
– First steps of the Dilithium switchover

Also a few unannounced tidbits:
– Ent F in the Mirror Universe incursion
– New voiceovers for the Guardian of Forever
– STF armor on display at ESD
– Ship shield quadrants change shades from blue to red as they lose integrity
– DS9 updates

F2P Test Rewards:
– Reach level 11 and receive an 8 hour XP boost item on Holodeck
– Reach level 31 and receive “a reasonably large chunk” of Dilithium on Holodeck
– Reach level 51 and receive a bonus ship slot, and a unique title.

———-

Let’s roll that beautiful bean footage!

– Up first, an interview with the Emergency Executive Producer Hologram: Stephen D’Angelo
– Then Al Rivera takes on a whirlwind tour of some upcoming +1 ship powers for the Feds!
– Then, Jesse Heinig gives us a run-down of the Dilithium-based economic changes
– And we end with a tour of Bajor!

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/11232/in-a-perfect-world-stoked-94/ Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:53:00 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=11232 Perfect World’s purchase of Cryptic is complete, but what does it mean? Plus our thoughts on one of the biggest challenges currently facing the game!

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Perfect World’s purchase of Cryptic is complete, but what does that mean? We dig into this major topic, and break down this month’s Ask Cryptic.

Plus our thoughts on one of the biggest challenges currently facing the game, and why now has to be the time these issues are addressed!

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Show Notes:

NEWS:

First, it’ll be a compact episode this week, sorry!

We had planned to have another “Foundry Files” segment for you to chew on, but the Foundry has been eating missions and causing a LOT of crash issues, so it’s been taken offline. Until it’s stable again, our team can’t deliver the goods!

Perfect World Acquisition is FINALIZED!

• What’s that mean for Atari points?
• What’s that mean for personnel/staffing?
• Final Price = $49.8million (~$30mil went straight to bring Atari into the black)
• The first round of “separation” from Atari on August 18th.

Ask Cryptic – August Edition

• Dates (Sept/October before we see anything new)

  • Additional comment from Dan re: timelines, delays: “… we are absolutely learning from the code merge that was Season 4 and I’m being very vocal about how much it has cost STO and how we can avoid it in the future.”
  • Aug 25th and Sept 22nd – next “big” release dates.

• T2 Nova / Pay-to-Win (Not seen as an issue by Cryptic… but totally is!)

• Acquiring the Ent F = Mission Reward for completing “a Fleet Action series”
• Space skill update coming in September, will combine T5 stupidity.
• Custom kits confirmed! (Late S4, or Early S5)
• Cross Faction STFs coming in September! (big boon to the underpopulated KDF side)

JHeinig ECONOMY MATHS us

• Per the Ask Cryptic… This ‘unified currency’ may be implemented as early as September.

Massively hands out some solid info on the upcoming Borg events

• Persistent ground combat areas, with weekly missions (Orion or Gorn homeworlds?)
• Stage 3 is the STF Revamp releases.
  • This will include new STF queues, including cross-faction teaming.
• Stage 4 = Into The Hive

Updated Defiant – QUAD CANNONS

Action Shot #1 // Action Shot #2

Not to be outdone… the KDF gets the same!

Action Shot!

Stahl hints at some sort of “Marines” uniform coming with the Borg invasion

TrekCon edition of TWEET LEAKS

(which just goes to show, what happens in Vegas, ends up on the internet)

• Gozer shows off his writer-signed script and flute from TNG “Inner Light”
• ThomasTheCat in uniform
• And a more job-appropriate color
• ThomasTheCat squeezes a Trek babe
• Trekkie R&R at the blackjack table

Dstahl responds to Foundry outage with REAL INFO

Reminder Q Weekend 20th-21st – XP NOMNOMS!

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]]> https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/7242/lucky-shot-stoked-78/ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:00:48 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=7242 After the guys sift out the best from the latest engineering report, they dig into some of the most import aspects of building a fun Foundry Mission.

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After the guys sift out the best from the latest engineering report, they dig into some of the most import aspects of building a fun Foundry Mission.

Plus more details on the Duty Officer System, customizable ground kits, and a quick review of the new Oberth ship!

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Show Notes:

NEWS:
Engineering Report
– Trying to squeeze out some new content by May
* New? Or Remastered Doomsday and P’jem?
– Foundry mission wrapper (as mentioned in interview last week)
* Already on Tribble. Go test it!  Make sure it works.
– Sol System planets are in testing? Neat-o!
* I would like to use Jupiter Station for UGC.
– “Ability to summon Away Team to your location.”
* How about fix them from falling through the world instead? Or both. Yeah, both!
– New FED tutorial? WHUT. Existing tutorial becoming a KA STF prequel mission (high level)
– Converting First Officer to Player AND VICE VERSA
* … why “vice versa?” Only one slot available for both?
– Repurposing some Feature Episode maps as new PVP maps.
* Chris can haz The Vault?
– Adding BOFF abilities to power list on the ground (so you can slot them)
* YES! – Chris’ G19 keyboard is going to work! 

Customizable Kits?
“systems design is discussing a kit redesign that would allow players to customize their powers by rank” – dStahl

Duty Roster Details Outlined
– Assignments may have requirements (e.g., these two slots on the assignment may only be filled by engineers) and may also have modifiers (e.g., this slot gives you a better chance of success if it is filled by an Andorian or a duty officer with the Trader trait).
– Which assignments are available will change every few hours, and may also be gated by your captain’s rank, what sector you are in, and other achievements.
– Adding Doffs will never give you active abilities to fill up your toolbar. Only passives/procs.

Oberth – quick review by Chris (Jeremy’s not insane enough to buy this POS)

Tweet Leaks:
– More skirt/boot options coming soon
– San Francisco begins! (note a famous bridge in the distance?)
– Concept art for the new Klingon academy
– Screenshot of new First City hub map
– Gozer: “Imaga and P’jem done.” // “Starting on new Space tutorials.”

TEASE FOR NEXT WEEK:
STO Podcaster’s Summit — Highlights in Next Week’s Episode
Red Shirt Army, Priority One, Hailing Frequency, TrekRadio, Podcast UGC and STOked
– Also special guest star(s?) from Cryptic Studios!

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MATH:

Write A Good Story, with guest critic Peregrine_Falcon

COMM FEED:

“What classic defining moments from the rest of Star Trek would you like to see inspire missions or moments in the Foundry?”

Weekly Foundry Mission Suggestions:

“Conjoined” by Denizen VI (FED)
Story-heavy, lots of reading, almost zero fighting. AMAZING environments with meticulous care given to creating them. Very interesting techno-babble driven story, felt very TREK.

“Shine a Light” by Darren_Kitlor (KDF)
You are invited to help with wedding preparations for a Great House, to bring honor to your own house. Finally a KDF mission that delves deeper into their lore and history, and not just killing stuff, drinking and boasting. (though that’s still part of it, of course)

“Fungus Among Us” by Borticus (FED)
Yes, it’s my mission. Yes, I’m shamelessly plugging it. Yes, it’s worth your time to play it.

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